Since last week I have new gloves. Not for cleaning, gardening, cold weather, or to protect me from Covid-19. No, I need them to get me into my stockings…

It wasn’t so long ago I could put on only my panties from Victoria’s Secret with my bare hands. And that was the only thing I wore underneath my jeans. Now I have to put on these extremely tight support stockings. And I need gloves to get them on and off.

When I put them on the first time, it was more difficult than getting into the tightest jeans you can imagine wearing. I was happy a friend got them for me and took my other stockings back to the Epilennium. Even happier when he also got the gloves and sent them to me by mail.

The first time I went to the toilet, I experienced it took me so much time to get them down, I can’t be in a hurry anymore. Getting them up in a small toilet is also a big challenge.

Putting the stockings on with the gloves is easier. Still a lot of work, but it gives me more adhesion. I found it a bit strange to wear gloves, going to the toilet. Definitely not an easy job going to the toilet wearing my new support stockings.

I’m still able to wear nice bras and feel a bit like a woman in these big stockings. I hope I get adjusted and more comfortable with them soon.

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Daphne

DAPHNE IN STOCKINGS is a writer with a blog telling her story about surviving blood clots, living with FVL, blood thinners, and stockings. And coping with Covid-19 twice in 2020. She's telling her story about building resilience in a physical and mental struggle to heal.